may I tempt you with some teasers?
i have a picture of the thrift store yarn I bought- 10 skeins!
did you know that the guy who invented the Dewey decimal system, yes, that's Dewey himself,
actually wanted to change the entire English language to be written phonetically?
Hey, I'd be all for it.
apparently after his great success with the book cataloguing thing he got a little bigheaded.
he went down in popularity after the phonetic spelling English idea.
anyway, he signed his name Dooee.
okay, so when I was in the thrift store the man who was loading the stuff onto the shelves was wheeling around a cart with all the yarn on it and so forth
and I said, "Oh, can I look?" trying not to act too overeager...
and I picked up the bag and was like "OOooh!" and then I saw more bags and I started picking them up and more and more
and then I said to the guy, gesticulating with a bag of yarn in my hand, "Wow, this is handspun!! Somebody probably spun this on a spinning wheel!"
noticing the international sign for glee crossing my face he helped me get out the rest of the bags while I tried to stop drooling.
"I'm buying out your whole yarn section here, aren't I?" I said. Then as I was examining the other bags back on the hooks, he kindly placed another bag of the handspun down at the pile at my feet. Thank you guy.
ok, so I buy the yarn and it's getting pretty close to when I should be driving off to get to work and I'm in the thrift store parking lot, tearing into a bag of the yarn and methodically wrapping it into a centrepull ball. A few people walk past and they probably wondered at me.
ok, 2nd pic is of my cat, the Sassy Butt. another of her with some ooold cotton yarn I thrifted. also the baby hat I'm making designed by Kate and a pair of socks for a friend who's b-day is the 16th. Wonder if I'll get those done in time...
so if i can figure out how to get them up I'll be happy.
Have a good night!
-e.
Tuesday, April 09, 2002
Good morning!!
I suppose I shouldn't have deleted that 'testing' post so that for all time I could remember the exact date and time of when I started blogging, but OH WELL.
I'm just so glad to be out here!
All week and last I've been jotting notes on scrap paper of 'cool ideas for my weblog' tee hee...
I feel like a giddy teenager.
even though I'm not. I'm a stolid, contribuing member of society (I teach) and I'm almost 30.
I was so excited to turn 30. My husband Dan was dreading it, and kept talking about it which made me think I was turning 30 too,
you can see I have a hard time with time if you know what I mean (I am a spaz) so I'm only 29. Ack, I hate odd numbers.
... but I was excited because I had this little rule/idea that I could give myself permission, now that I would be 30, to do whatever the hell I wanted and not care about what other people thought. It was like this now-I-don't-have-to-care milestone or something
and the best part was that I was going to start more KIPing. I mean, I do anyway, but I was having fantasies of knitting in such places as Bible study, at all kinds of meetings for work etc. etc. Basically everywhere except while I'm teaching because that would be negligent.
(But I've even worked it in there... this summer I'm teaching the kids how to knit and we're doing lots with yarn like KoolAid dyeing (we did it last year and it was a success!) and pom pon balls etc.)
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so... I should look at my list.
here are some words I wanted to make a poem out of;
limpet
tendril
timbrel
lentil
limpid
lintel
temple
ha. If I had comments I'd make you all make one.
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silly blogger, it's a haiku...
on my template it's SUPPOSED to read;
skAYn
disorder becomes
centrepullball
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ah well, that's it for now. maybe tonight I'll take lots of pics and somehow get them posted up or something
-e.